Bedstead attachment.



PATENTED MAR. 15, 1904.

A. B. SHANE.

BEDSTEAD ATTACHMENT.

APPLIGATION FILEDDEO. 23, 1901.

K0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES- Patented. March 15, 1904.

AURELIA B. SHANE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BE DSTEAD ATTACHM ENT- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 754,615, dated March 15, 1904.

Application filed December 23, 1901. Serial No. 87,018. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

in the county of Cook and State of Illinois,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bedstead Attachments; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to a novel construction in an attachment for bedsteads to support a curtain around the bottom of a bedstead, the object being to provide a device which can be readily secured to and will fit bedsteads of various dimensions; and it consists in the features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bedstead provided with an attachment constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view,on an enlarged scale, on line 2 2 of Fig. 1, showing my attachment in fragmentary top plan view. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the bed. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary detail sectional view on the line i 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail section similar to Fig. 2, showing the nipples for securing rods to the bedstead mounted directly on the bedpost.

My device is designed particularly to be attached to metallic bedsteads and to this end consists, primarily, of clamps A, each adapted to be secured to one of the bedposts above the side rails of the bed. The said clamps A each comprise two jaws of practically semicircular shape, between which the bedpost is clamped, each jaw having a lug or protection B at one end, one of which is bored smooth and the other of which is tapped to receive a set-screw C, by means of which the jaws are clamped together. Each of said jaws carries a projection D at one point, to-which is hinged a screw-threaded nipple E in such manner that said nipple swings horizontally when said aws are clamped on the bedpost.

Said pro-- jections D are so located on the clamp A as to extend outwardly from same at an angle of approximately ninety degrees to each other and so that the lugs or projections B extend at an angle of about forty-five degrees to said projections D. When the device is in place on the bedstead, the said projections D are almost entirely hidden from sight. Each of said nipples E is adapted to receive one end of a telescopic rod or tube F, of which there are four, which completely surround the bedstead and upon which the curtains G are hung.

Should it be desired to make the attachment to the bedstead permanent, the lugs or projec; tions D maybe made a permanent part of the bedstead, being either cast integral with the posts or secured thereto in any suitable manner. In Fig. 5 I have shown said projections D thus. permanently secured, the bedpost being preferably annularly enlarged, as at H, so as to cause said lugs to project sufliciently far out to bring the rods or tubes F sufliciently far beyond the side rails to permit the curtains G to hang freely. 7

My device is very simple and eflicient, the pivoted nipples E serving to enable the telescopic rods to be swung outwardly when desired and permit them to adjust themselves to proper position with relation to each other.

I claim as my invention 4 An attachment for bedsteads comprising clamps adapted to be secured to the bedposts, projections on each of said clamps extending at angles to each other,-nipples pivotally secured to said projections and swinging in a horizontal plane, end telescopic rods adapted to be secured at their ends to said nipples and extend practically parallel with the side rails and ends of the bedstead. v

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AURELIA B. SHANE. 

